Gross/Micro said:
It works out, our department (BWH) suddenly has an open Renal pathology fellowship slot this coming July. If you have any interest in Renal, this is an amazing opportunity to train with Helmut Rennke. They are going to start advertising the position soon, but I thought I would give SDNers a head start. PM me if you have any questions.
I wouldnt wish a renal path fellowship on my worst enemy. You can really consolidate all kidney biopsies into a handful of academic centers, there is simply no need in my opinion to train more until most of current renal pathologists are retired or dead/near death. And the trend now is towards ablation therapy for lots of different renal lesions, so joe pathologist isnt even seeing many good biopsy specimens anymore. Not that renal isnt important, but a fellowship basically trains you to look at EM and immunofluor. (basically a renal pathology fellowship = glomerular disease, which is seriously flippin boring) which is all sendout once you leave academia. All competent surgical pathologists can dx RCC or any other renal malignancy without this year.
My advice either close the fellowship and salute a bygone era of pathology, or combine it with a more useful skill set like derm or cyto.
In conclusion, we simply dont need more people who can read EM, even if all fellowship severywhere simultaneously closed, we would be able to survive indefinitely from all the MD/PhDs who have EM experience from research.
What BW needs is 6+ dermpath spots, seriously. Train people in skill sets that will get them jobs.
PS- I thought about this some more, its simple. Create a combined renal/GI thing, have the fellow sit for 6 months with Odze at sign out. Think outside the box, you are at Harvard for crying out loud. (tho the big H did get rid of Summers, guess they are slipping..)
